1. Title of Project Your Name, Year Your Mentor’s Name Your mentor’s affiliations (e.g. Department, Location [UCD, Denver Health, etc.]) Other research team members, if applicable

2. Disclosures Are there any real or perceived conflicts of interest for anyone involved in the project? If this is human subjects research, COMIRB protocol number? If animals are involved, IACUC?

3. Background Why am I personally interested in this topic?

4. Background What is the literature in this topic area? – Generally talk about why this is important – What do we already know? What information gaps are missing? What is the historical context for your project? If you are doing an intervention, what interventions have been tried before? What were the results?

5. Specific Details about your Project What is the specific question you are trying to answer? – What are the specific aims of your project? – What are your hypotheses?

6. Specific Details about your Project Methodology – How are you going to (did you) answer your research question? – Give specific details Who? – Population, cell lines, animals, etc. What? – Survey, clinical trial, systematic review, lab technique, art medium Where? How? – Mail, in-person, in lab, which primary resources

7. Accomplishments What have you been able to do thus far? What roadblocks have you encountered? – What are the lessons learned from this? If you have results— – What are the results? – What do they mean? – How do you interpret them in the context of the existing literature?

8. Future Directions Detailed outline of what is left and needs to be done. – If this is a Work In Progress, what are my next steps? – If this is a capstone presentation, highlight future research/scholarly activity in this area.

9. Acknowledgements Who do you need to thank for helping you? – Mentors? – Librarians? – Research assistants?

10. Questions?